Category: User Group

Our October meeting features John Deardurff, Microsoft Data Platform MVP.

Topic

How to Get SQL Server Certified.

Microsoft has recently streamlined the certification process and this session focuses on what you need to know to get Microsoft Certified on SQL Server. The session is led by an expert Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Microsoft MVP who regularly teaches the SQL Server certification courses. The presenter walks you through the certifications, exams, and resources available to get you ready for success.

Bio

For over 18 years John has taught Microsoft SQL, Exchange, and Windows Server certification courses. He has been a database and networking consultant for over 20 years and currently holds over 40 Microsoft Certifications. He is a MCT Regional Lead for the Eastern United States and a Data Platform MVP.

Our September meeting features Justin Lynch from Google who will be showing a high-level Google Cloud overview, including a demo of Spanner, Google’s relational and scalable ACID-compliant database platform!

Agenda (6-8 PM)
– Presentation will start at a high level overview of GCP
– Innovation at Google
– Machine Learning
– Spanner with the live demo of Spanner from NEXT

Justin Lynch’s Bio
– Googler for 3.5 years and on the Google Cloud Platform team for over a year.
– Account Executive for all things Cloud and previously managed a Recruiting team focused on Leadership within Site Reliability Engineering.

Food
Food will be served 15-20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting.

Hear about these unique capabilities as well as Pyramid’s integration with Power BI.

Speaker
Andrew Mauch

Andrew is a results oriented sales and management professional striving to help companies unlock the power of their data. Andrew has spent several years managing a consulting organization that built custom BI solutions from the Microsoft platform. Seeing how companies often struggled with BI, Reporting and Analytics, led him to join Pyramid Analytics. BI Office is where BI is made simple, putting the power of Analytics in the end user’s hands with the governance of IT.

Sponsor
Pyramid Analytics

Food
Food will be served 15-20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting.

Synopsis
Craig Allen is a Microsoft Specialist at EMC and will be presenting on AlwaysOn Availability Groups.

His role as a technical consultant and “MSpecialist” is to help customers gain a strong technical understanding of Microsoft products and solutions, as well as the integration and interoperability between Microsoft and EMC, including joint-development between the two companies.

Craig can assist in the initial planning and evaluation of EMC’s “Proven Solutions for Microsoft”, including requirements gathering, architectural guidance, and integration considerations. He can also work with EMC Consulting and your local Microsoft team to coordinate efforts around solutions development and deployment.

Craig is located in Dallas, TX and comes to EMC with 25 years of experience in IT.

Food
Food will be provided 15-20 minutes prior to the start of our event.

Also, Omaha SQL User Group now has a presence on Meetup! You can join the group here.

SQL Server 2016 should be generally available, and we should have some new faces to meet and greet! We’ll use this time to talk SQL 2016, and the remainder of the time will be open topic. Please bring your questions and we’ll use the group to help answer them.

Food will be served 15-20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting.

Also, Omaha SQL User Group now has a presence on Meetup! You can join the group here.